Social Media Aggregation Tool

Introduction

Social media aggregation refers to the process of content collection from different social sources such as twitter ,facebook , myspace and Digg,whereas social media aggregator refers to a tool or a system which aids the user to pull together information into a single site or to consolidate several social media profiles into a single profile.The media aggregator provides tools to allow users track friends ,consolidate messages ,read RSS feeds for multiple social media networks one can also integrate blog posts .Social media aggregation services comes up with ideas of simplifying and organizing social media experience for the users. However, this idea has been ridiculed by the concept of “social media aggregator.” This aggregation has made social life easier in that the same content appears in real time across all the social media platforms in which one has subscribed hence eliminates the hectic task of logging in and out from one social media to another for instance considering a situation where one has more than ten social media sites. Therefore, saves the time that one spends on social media sites.

Social media aggregator has different classification these include;

Google Buzz this allows users with mobile supported end device to tag posts alongside their current locations. The cannot manually manipulate the current location arbitrarily as the actual physical location is automatically reported by the device.

Convo Track this mainly deals with the collection of online comments and discussions concerning a given blog article from different social media platforms such as ,twitter, Digg and HackersNews. The advantage of this social aggregator is that it has a very comprehensive bookmarklet that allows the user to remain within the web page. It also has tiny script which enables web site owners to select onto their site hence allowing visitors to get access a particular conversation on the social site by just making a click.

Microsoft’s spandex is the one of the latest version. Spindex unlike other versions focuses on personalized trends of topics This aggregator seeks to find important information depending on user’s interest in the comments and messages of their friends.

Yack Track this uses URLs both Tiny URLs and backlinks to aggregate opinions on different posts from multiple social media sites. The Yack Track is capable of quantifying the number of comments emerging from social site that the Yack Track can support as well as measuring conversation taking place in a particular social site.

There are about three social media aggregation sites namely; Friendfeed , fuser and Spokeo.These social aggregation sites allows the user to read and share messages or comments from emails and other social networking sites from internet enabled devices. One has to vividly decide on what the social media aggregation site has to do instead of looking at what aggregation site the offers. This therefore requires the user’s control.

Conclusion

Social media aggregation has allowed the sharing of information in the social media by aggregation of messages, comments and opinions over several social site platforms in which the user is subscribed to. This has greatly reduced the time wastage spend logging in and out from one social site to another especially in a situation where one has several social sites. This calls for the embrace of social media aggregation in the social life.